Sonya Bird

Datos Biográficos

ID637063
NOMBRESonya Bird
NOMBRESSonya
APELLIDOBird
FIRMABIRD S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Victoria
ORCID0000-0001-9089-5327
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS8
TOTAL DE CITAS11
TOTAL COMO AUTOR8
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2004
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Child Phonology in a Language Revitalization Context

    Open AccessBoey Kwan, Sonya Bird et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2026

    Indigenous language revitalization is a multi-generational process. For example, many children now acquiring a Salish language in Western Canada are learning from caregivers who are second-language speakers. Little is known about the trajectory of children’s phonological acquisition in such contexts. Here, we investigate Hul’q’umi’num’, which, like many Salish languages, has far more consonants than English and much more frequent consonant cluste…

  • A phonetic case study of Tŝilhqot’in /z/ and /z ʕ

    Open AccessSonya Bird, Sky OnossonARTICLEJournal of the International…2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 3

    This paper provides an acoustic description of /z/ and /z ʕ / in Tŝilhqot’in (Northern Dene). These sounds are noted by Cook (1993, 2013) to show lenition and some degree of laterality in coda position. Based on recordings made in 2014 with a single, mother-tongue speaker of Tŝilhqot’in, we describe their acoustic properties and examine their distribution as a function of prosodic position and segmental environment. We find that they vary along t…

  • Belarusian

    Open AccessSonya Bird, Natallia LitvinARTICLEJournal of the International…2021

    Belarusian (ISO 639-3 BEL) is an Eastern Slavic language spoken by roughly seven million people in the Republic of Belarus (Zaprudski 2007, Census of the Republic of Belarus 2009), a land-locked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest (Figure 1). Within the Belarusian language, the two main dialects are North Eastern and South Western (…

  • The Nature of Laryngealization in St'át'imcets Laryngealized Resonants

    Sonya BirdARTICLEInternational Journal of American…2011Citada por: 3Referencias: 10

    Phonetic variability—the variability with which we speak—has recently received much attention because of its implications for how sounds are represented lexically. This paper considers phonetic variability in laryngealized resonants, which are rare cross-linguistically but common in the Pacific Northwest languages (Salish and Wakashan). Previous literature on these sounds has focused primarily on variability in timing between the oral and larynge…

  • An Exemplar Dynamic Approach to Language Shift

    Open AccessSonya BirdARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of…2008

    This squib presents an exploration of how Exemplar Dynamics (Hintzman 1986; Goldinger 1996; Pierrehumbert 2001) can be used to model the increased phonetic variability observed in language shift situations. It is based on a study of laryngealized resonants, as pronounced by three fluent speakers of St’át’imcets, a Northern Interior Salish language of British Columbia

  • Oral-laryngeal timing in glottalised resonants

    Open AccessSonya Bird, Marion Caldecott et al.ARTICLEJournal of Phonetics2008Citada por: 5Referencias: 13

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    Open AccessSonya Bird, Marion Caldecott et al.ARTICLEJournal of Phonetics2008

  • Lheidli intervocalic consonants

    Open AccessSonya BirdARTICLEJournal of the International…2004Citada por: 2

    Several researchers have noted that intervocalic consonants are unusually long in Navajo (Sapir & Hoijer 1967, Young & Morgan 1987, McDonough & Ladefoged 1993). This paper explores intervocalic consonant duration in the Lheidli dialect of Dakelh (Carrier) in order to determine whether the long intervocalic consonants found in Navajo are characteristic of other Athabaskan languages as well. It is shown that Lheidli intervocalic consonants are subs…